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WebMD- Toxins in Home Furnishings Can Be Passed to Kids February 21, 2019Semi-volatile organic compounds (or SVOCs) are widely used in electronics, furniture and building materials, and can be detected in nearly all indoor environment. Human exposure to them is widespread.
- Nurse Builds Database of Women Murdered By Men February 21, 2019Since 2017, a school nurse in a Dallas suburb has been counting women murdered by men.
- HPV Infections in Decline, Thanks to Vaccines February 21, 2019The new study finds that rates of infection with HPV 16 or 18 -- the two strains most heavily implicated in cervical cancer -- have markedly declined between 2008 and 2014.
- U.S. Leads Rich Nations in Drug Overdose Deaths February 21, 2019Drug deaths in the United States are more than 27 times higher than in Italy and Japan, which have the lowest rates, and are double the rates of Finland and Sweden, the countries with the next highest death rates.
- FDA Proposes Major Changes to Sunscreen Rules February 21, 2019According to the FDA, 12 sunscreen ingredients lack sufficient data to support whether they are generally safe and effective. They are cinoxate, dioxybenzone, ensulizole, homosalate, meradimate, octinoxate, octisalate, octocrylene, padimate O, sulisobenzone, oxybenzone and avobenzone.
- Aggressive Breast Cancer Responds to New Drug February 20, 2019In the clinical trial of the new drug, sacituzumab govitecan, about a third of the patients responded to treatment and the effect lasted up to eight months. The research was funded by the drug's maker.
- Could Pacemakers Be Powered By Heartbeats One Day? February 20, 2019Battery-powered pacemakers have to be replaced every five to 12 years. So, some scientists have been working an alternative: battery-free pacemakers that in theory would never have to be replaced.
- Kaiser Permanente Med School to Offer Free Tuition February 20, 2019A new medical school will offer free tuition to its first five classes in hopes of student debt as an obstacle to enrollment.
- FDA Head: Agency May Cut Kids' Vaccine Exemptions February 20, 2019The federal government could "mandate certain rules about what is and isn't permissible when it comes to allowing people to have exemptions," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNN.
- Cancer and Sugar: Is There a Link? February 20, 2019Does sugar cause cancer or make it grow faster? Some experts believe so, while others believe the real culprit is something that can happen if you have too much sugar.
